Year 2: 30 didactic classes; 6 process groups; 2 workshops

Intro Series (4-5 classes)‍ ‍

09.15.26 From Listening to Action: Psychopathology and Therapeutic Action in Psychoanalytic Practice All faculty encouraged to come

Readings:

Bass, A. (2024). It takes two to know one: Mutual relations at the heart of therapeutic action. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 34(5), 591–609.

09.22.26 Introduction to Self Psychology Part 2: Deficits in Self Structure and the Remobilization of Inborn Developmental Potentials Alyson Kepple

Syllabus
Readings:
1. Geist, R. A. (2020). Interpretation as carrier of selfobject functions: Catalyzing inborn potential. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 15(4), 338–347. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2020.1791128

2. Tolpin, M. (2002). Doing psychoanalysis of normal development: Forward edge transferences. In W. J. Coburn (Ed.), Progress in self psychology (Vol. 18, pp. 167–190). The Analytic Press. [1, 2, 3]

Recommended Readings:

1. Gardner, J. R. (2020). Discussion of Richard Geist’s “Interpretation as carrier of selfobject functions: Catalyzing inborn potential”. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 15(4), 348–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2020.1791128 [1, 2]

2. Stern, S. (2024).Breathing together: Needed relationships and complex selfobjects. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 19(3), 274–285. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2024.2345619

09.29.26 Empathy and Therapeutic Action Alyson Kepple

Syllabus
Readings:
1. Geist, R. A. (2013). How the empathic process heals: A microprocess perspective. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 8(3), 265–281.

https://doi.org/10.1080/15551024.2013.800357.

2. Stern, D. N., Sander, L. W., Nahum, J. P., Harrison, A. M., Lyons-Ruth, K., Morgan, A. C., Bruschweiler-Stern, N., & Tronick, E. Z. (1998). Non-interpretive mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy: The "something more" than interpretation. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 79(5), 903–921.

Recommended Readings:

1. Geist, R. (2007). Who Are You, Who Am I, and Where Are We Going: Sustained Empathic Immersion in the Opening Phase of Psychoanalytic Treatment. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, 2(1), 1–26.https://doi.org/10.2513/s15551024ijpsp0201_1.

2. Slowiaczek, M. L. (2021). Holding on and Diving in: Reciprocity in a Therapeutic Relationship. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 16(3), 242–252. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2021.1928137

10.06.26 Pathological Organizing Principles and Structures of Pathological Accommodation Alyson Kepple

Syllabus
Readings:
1. Brandchaft, B. (1994). To free the spirit from its cell. In R. D. Stolorow, G. E. Atwood, & B. Brandchaft (Eds.), The intersubjective perspective (pp. 57–76). Jason Aronson. (Reprinted from A. Goldberg (Ed.), "The Widening Scope of Self Psychology," Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1993, pp. 209–230)

2. Doctors, S. R. (2017). Brandchaft’s Pathological Accommodation—What It Is and What It Isn’t. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 12(1), 45–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/15551024.2017.1251184

Recommended Readings:

1. Zarnegar, G. (2020) Politics, Phantomization and Pathological Cultural Accommodation. Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context 15:244-250

2. Haber, D. (2019) Accommodating Brandchaft: Theory and Transference in Analytic Training. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 39:344-357

10.13.26 The Analyst's Quiet: The Analytic Approach (Poland) and the Freudian Pair (Bollas) Adam G. Haglund, LCSW, and Bill Cornell, M.A., TSTA (P)

Syllabus

References/Readings:

1. Poland, W. S. (2013). The analyst's approach and the patient's psychic growth. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 82(4), 829–847.

2. Bollas, C. (2001). Freudian intersubjectivity: Commentary on paper by Julie Gerhardt and Annie Sweetnam. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 11(1), 93–105.

3. Govrin, A. (2026). Interpretation: A contemporary introduction. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003590750

4. Zeavin, L. (2023). Interpretation: Time, timing, loss, and recovery in the analytic hour. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 71(6), 1085–1105.

10.27.26 No Analyst Is Ever Neutral: The Analyst as Person (Kite), the Field (Stern), and the Limits of Listening (Moss) Adam G. Haglund, LCSW, and Bill Cornell, M.A., TSTA (P)

Syllabus

References/Readings:

1. Kite, J. V. (2016). The fundamental ethical ambiguity of the analyst as person. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 64(6), 1153–1171. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003065116682442

2. Stern, D. B. (2019). How I work with unconscious process: A case example. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 55(4), 336–348.

3. Moss, D. (2019). Free speech, love speech, hate speech, and neutrality: In and out of the consulting room. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 67(2), 313–327.

5. Davies, J. M. (2004). Whose bad objects are we anyway? Repetition and our elusive love affair with evil. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14(6), 711–732.

6. Bollas, C. (1989). Forces of destiny: Psychoanalysis and human idiom. London: Free Association Books.

11.1.26 Workshop: Interventions and Interpretations in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Sharon Bernstein, Ph.D., Adam Haglund, LCSW, George Herrity, Psy.D., Catherine Maihoefer, LPC, Loren Sobel, M.D., Laure Swearingen, Ph.D.

Syllabus

References/Readings

Required: Govrin, A. (2026). Interpretation: A contemporary introduction. Routledge. (pp.122-136)

Symington, N. (1983). The analyst's act of freedom as agent of therapeutic change. International Review of Psycho-Analysis, 10, 283.